| Up Country | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Nelson DeMille |
| Country | United States |
| Subject(s) | Vietnam War, cold case murders |
| Genre(s) | Thriller |
| Publisher | Warner Books |
| Publication date | 2001 |
| Media type | Hardcover, paperback, audiobook |
| Pages | 706 (large print edition) |
| ISBN | 0446516570 |
| OCLC Number | 400168803 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3554.E472 U6 2002 |
| Preceded by | The Lion's Game |
| Followed by | Night Fall |
Up Country is a thriller novel by Nelson DeMille released in 2002.[1][2] Set in contemporary Vietnam, the novel features the return of the character of Paul Brenner, a investigator for the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division and the protagonist of DeMille's The General's Daughter (1992).[2] Brenner and his girlfriend drive to the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone from the capital, Saigon, with the intention of solving a cold case murder from thirty years previously, in which an American soldier was shot dead by a superior officer.[1] En route, Brenner recounts to her the battles he fought in during the Vietnam War.[2] These recalled conflicts are in fact those the author engaged in during the Tet Offensive as an infantry officer of the army's First Cavalry Division; DeMille has characterized the work as his most personal since his 1978 debut By the Rivers of Babylon.[2]
Paramount Pictures, the production company responsible for the 1999 film adaptation The General's Daughter have bought the rights to Up Country, with actor John Travolta slated to return as Brenner.[2] Up Country was published by Warner Books.